The false assumptions of "democracy" (Registro nro. 117584)
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| LC control number | 22005444 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
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| Classification number | HN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ludovici, Anthony M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Anthony Mario), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1882-1971 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The false assumptions of "democracy" |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-09-11 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Sean/IB@DP |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The false assumptions of "democracy" by Anthony M. Ludovici is a political treatise written in the early 20th century. It argues that modern democratic ideals rest on muddled language and seductive slogans, and urges a rigorous redefinition of key political terms. The work challenges egalitarianism and socialism, defends private property as a life-affirming principle, and seeks to disentangle justice, freedom, and equality from popular misconceptions. The opening of the treatise frames its project with a supportive letter and a preface that, in the shadow of the Great War, calls for a sober “stock-taking” of ideals and a reclarification of language to avert social breakdown. The introduction claims that the loss of a common culture has emptied abstract words—freedom, justice, equality—of meaning, turning them into emotional “missiles,” with journalism and propaganda accelerating the decay; Rousseau’s misuse of “Nature,” “Freedom,” and “Man” is cited as a model of how such confusion births revolution. The first chapter defends private property as the biological and moral expression of growth and self-extension, criticizes abolitionist schemes as symptoms of cultural exhaustion, concedes real abuses (misallocated power, degrading labor, unhealthy poverty, unearned advantages), and proposes changing social valuations so wealth does not automatically equal power. Subsequent early chapters argue that “immanent justice” is a myth because nature is amoral and justice is purely social, and that equality (including “equality of opportunity”) is incoherent beyond mathematics—leaving only equal protection of interests under law as a sensible aim. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Heath Cranton, Ltd., 1921 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Democracy |
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| Uncontrolled term | Social problems |
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| Uncontrolled term | Great Britain -- Social conditions |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Willoughby de Broke, Richard Greville Verney, baron, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1869-1923 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/falseassumptions00ludo/page/n3/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/falseassumptions00ludo/page/n3/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76859">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76859</a> |
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